AMIDE

Amide

An amide, also known as an '-acid amide', is a compound with the functional group RnExNR'2 . Most common are "organic amides", but many other important types of amides are known including phosphor amides and sulfonamides . The term amide refers both to classes of compounds and to the functional group within those compounds.

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amide

Noun

  1. Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides.
  2. Any ionic derivative of ammonia in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with a metal cation.


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